Description

For years I have sought a certain gem. It is called the Heart of the Mountain and it's the size of your fist! The Dark Iron dwarves have it locked in their vault and, try as I may, they won't let me purchase it.

So I must resort to force.

Fight your way to the Lower Vault of Blackrock Depths, breach its secret safe and gain the Heart. To do that, you must defeat Watchman Doomgrip, and he won't appear until you've opened every relic coffer in the vault!

You have the heart! Amazing! It is even more beautiful than I imagined!

Please, <name>, take this as payment!

Rewards

You will receive:
85

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

12,250 experience

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Comments

Comment by Celem

the dark keeper referred to in the top post follows on from the opening of the standard doors. Once all the doors are open as mentioned above you get the golem and watchman spawn. After this event is complete a dark keeper spawns. There are 6 dark keepers each with a different spawn point, i am unsure if it is possible to tell which has spawned. You find and kill him to gain the dark keeper's key (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=11197) which will then open the final door in the vault. (directly above heart of the mountain). Apparently this last safe can contain some wicked treasure. though we only got 1 poor green piece:(

Comment by Zajik

It is possible to find out which dark keeper has spawned. In the room before the room in which Watchman Doomgrim spawns there should be a portrait on the wall. (you will have to open its covering to view who it is). This is also stated on the page that Celem linked above.

Comment by fenreer

Wait, so let me get this straight... You want us to spend hours hacking our way to the bottom of this dungeon, defeat a huge guardian, lug this GEM the size of my fist all the way out of that dungeon and hand it over to you in exchange for 85 silver?

I feel like I just woke up alone in a public bathroom with my cheek on a urinal cake after spending the night with someone who promised me the world on a silver platter...

Comment by Renegade666

This is quest draws from Tolkiens 'The Hobbit'. The 'Heart of the Mountain' is the Arkenstone of Thrain, guarded by Smaug the Dragon.

Comment by lumpor

Such a big, clear gem, a one of a kind, hidden in a deep locked vault. It's treasured even by the dark iron dwarves, who are master miners.

And Maxwort uberglint only pays you 85 silver?

What a scam.

Comment by undeathbeckons

This quest DOES count for Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms.

Also, had an interesting incident happen when I did the quest: I was able to loot the Heart of the Mountain through the wall of the secret panel. I didn't need to open any relic coffers or kill Doomgrip.

EDIT: Several people have confirmed this, so I think I can safely say that it is possible to loot the quest item without collecting any keys. Just head right on down and pick up your Heart.

Comment by ultininja

I was about to loot the Heart of the Mountain behind the Dark Coffer without opening any Relic Coffer Doors.Stand so close to the Dark Coffer that your character is touching the wall, then you will be able to turn your camera to an angle that lets you right click to loot Heart of the Mountain. You won't be able to see it, so move your mouse around until the wheel comes up to loot it. Make sure the Relic Coffer Doors on each side are shut. I posted this comment immediately after doing so on 2/18/2010 during patch 3.3.2.

Comment by Aesteria

Yup, the glitch still works, I could loot the item through the door on the right side.

Comment by Biffsterr

The quest isn't obsolete, I just did it a little while ago. The quest giver is now located just inside the instance along with the others. It's the same NPC who gives it though.

Comment by Zangdaarr

This quest is not obsolete.

I am doing it at the very moment I write this text, and I get it 5 min ago.

Comment by cwiedman

Quest awards 3 gold, 33 silver now, in addition to the xp. The glitch still works, as well.

Comment by mistertrouble189

Confirmed that you can loot the jewel without opening any of the locked doors. Just move cursor to the bottom right of the door and the cogwheel will appear, allowing you to loot it. Quest completed :)

Comment by finkypoo

Glitch does not work as of 4.3

Had multiple people try, was able to target the heart. Kept getting the error message Target not in line of site

Comment by shagvvrath

You can farm the keys outside of the instance entrance from the non elite task masters. You can take the keys into the isntance, but if you leave they vanish "as intended". But you can farm up 12 in about an hour and with a group go in and finish the quest. I Know its stupid just to finsh one quest.. however. While farming i killed all of the mobs in the area, the slaves, task masters and the rare elite. The rare elite always drops a vilerend slicer, a blue fist weapon. So my totals after an hour, and after looting all 12 coffers were. 6 vilerend slicers (30g disenchant value) 4 stacks of mageweave, 3 irrdescant pearls (100+ gold each) 3 tigers eyes, 2 less moonstone, citrine, malachite, 2 moss agate, 2 shadowgen, 2 jade, 1 small lustrous pearl. Which on my server, is just about 800 gold worth of stuff, and you get to seem like a bad ass for finishing that quest everyone is frustrated with.

Comment by ojomann

What ure looking for, is this: The Heart of The Mountain

Comment by maxifer

As of patch 5.1, you can still complete this quest. However, it's given and returned to one of the questgivers inside the instance. The Dark Coffer Key seems to have a reduced drop rate as we cleared the entire instance and found only two or three extra keys. You have to open each of the coffers in the area and then an elite will spawn in addition to the animation of the four stone golem elites. After killing all of them the drawer opens and falls to the ground making The Heart of the Mountain and a small box (usually holds one green) lootable. The quest item disappears after collected with a short respawn timer, so everyone is able to get it in one run.

I'm not certain whether the clicking behind the drawer glitch still works as someone opened a couple coffers before I could check.

Comment by bigpappa

This quest is not obsolete. You just have to collect the keys and open all of the safes. The heart will spawn under the middle safe after u open all of the others.

Comment by Lawkstarz

This quest can still be attained and completed. Shh.. Don't tell Blizz. You know how they like to kill fun old quests.